The resolution of the case comes after the city agreed in July to pay $1.5 million to settle a suit stemming from the death of an inmate under different circumstances — a struggle with correction officers in the prison ward at Bellevue Hospital Center; and in June, a $2 million settlement of another Program lawsuit that involved a fatal beating.
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Armstrong is also facing two other civil lawsuits, one that involves the Dallas-based insurance company SCA Promotions, which is trying to recoup millions of dollars it covered when Armstrong won multiple Tours.
Less attention has been paid to a much smaller class-action lawsuit, recently filed in Chicago, that involves Walmart's business -- perhaps because it involves far fewer workers, and because the retail behemoth isn't actually named in the suit.
"My client is extremely disappointed these individuals saw fit to file any lawsuit that would involve him," he said in a telephone interview.
After graduation, Keller changed his mind and sued the N.C.A.A. Next came the O'Bannon lawsuit, then another that involved the former Rutgers quarterback Ryan Hart.
Mr. Paulson's financial achievements were also cast in an unflattering light two years ago, when the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against Goldman Sachs that involved a mortgage investment fund that Mr. Paulson had played a role in creating.
In a 2004 deposition taken in a lawsuit over legal fees that involved many of the same players as the current criminal case, Mr. Scruggs confirmed that he paid Mr. Blake at least $10 million in fees from the tobacco settlement, but precisely what Mr. Blake did to earn that money is now emerging as an important question.
The Barnes Foundation, for one, was prodded to open to the public on Fridays and Saturdays following a fierce dispute over a similar issue in the late 1950's and early 60's that involved two lawsuits pressing for access filed by Walter Annenberg, then the publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the state attorney general's office.
The announcement Thursday was not related to a larger pending settlement with the federal Justice Department over three whistle-blower lawsuits that also involve sales of Risperdal.
